Unless your card and driver supports OpenGL 4+ you cannot use it. Most likely in your case you are stuck with GL 2.1. You need to get a more recent AMD or NVIDIA GPU (I don't think Intel has any card/driver that supports GL 4.x yet) and get the latest drivers. Radeon HD5000+ and GeForce 400+ have GL 4.x support.

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